ing testines if you  by cunity of uttering a fe o pieces.quot;

    quot;My good friend,quot; rejoined I, quot; to tion of emporaries can be at present in existence, and ty to being immured like yourself in old libraries; ead of likening to  more properly and gratefully o ttaco religious establiss for t of t, and ering and no employment, ten endure to an amazingly good-for-notalk of your contemporaries as if in circulation.   do este of Lincoln? No one could oiled ality. o ten nearly t o perpetuate , alas! ts are scattered in various libraries, iquarian.  do iquary, p? erity; but posterity never inquires after his labors.

    of ingdon, e a treatise on tempt of tting  is quoted of Joseper, styled tion?

    Of   forever, excepting a mere fragment; to a feerature; and as to irely disappeared.  is in current use of Joree of life? Of illiam of Malmsbury--of Simeon of Dur of Peterboroug. Albans--of----quot;

    quot;Prit; cried to in a testy tone, quot;alking of aut lived long before my time, and e eitin or Frenc triated to be forgotten;* but I, sir, ten in my oive tongue, at a time w Englis;

    (I s tolerably antiquated terms, t I e dif?culty in rendering to modern p;I cry you mercy,quot; said I, quot;for mistaking your age; but it matters little. Almost all ters of your time o forgetfulness, and De ordes publications are mere literary rarities among book-collectors. ty and stability of language, too, on uity, o times of t of Gloucester, ongues perpetually subject